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Where does “Jungsteinzeit” come from?

Jungsteinzeit (German) comes from German Steinzeit, from German Steinzeitalter, from German Zeitalter, from German alter, from German Alt, from Middle High German alt, from Old High German alt, from Proto-West Germanic ald.

Jungsteinzeit (German): New Stone Age, Neolithic

Definitions

  1. New Stone Age, Neolithic

Ancestry of “Jungsteinzeit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSteinzeitStone Age
2GermanSteinzeitalter—
3GermanZeitalterage; era
4Germanalter
5GermanAltalto; A type of beer, typical to the Rhineland...
6Middle High Germanalt—
7Old High Germanaltold
8Proto-West Germanicaldold
9Proto-Germanicaldazold, grown up
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂eltós—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂él-—

Words derived from “Jungsteinzeit”

  • jungsteinzeitlich
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